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Sgt Brian Orr, of GMP’s Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: “This is a tragic set of circumstances that has taken a man’s life. Our thoughts are with his family and we have specialist officers working with them at this traumatic time.

“This happened on a busy road in the middle of the day when people would have been around and may have seen something.

“I would urge anyone who was in the area at the time to please contact us. We would also like to speak to anyone who has dash cam footage of the collision.”

Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101, quoting incident number 1056 of 22/03/17, or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.